Re: Developerworks imminent demise - Save the content!

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

RFE site is kind of interesting - one of the CAAC subgroups was on it 
this week, and there was no message about the demise of anything - maybe 
not on the same Connections site?

Still, one gets nervous around all this!

Cheers
Vern

On 10/31/2019 1:23 PM, DrFranken wrote:
> Let it be known that this has IBM's attention. Whether or not they 
> will have a solution in place that is satisfactory to all of us here 
> and in the wider IBM i community is unknown (unlikely?) at this point.
>
> I pointed out to them today for example that all of IBM's RFEs flow 
> through DeveloperWorks and the lack of that alone should scare the 
> dickens out of upper management.
>
> Many of the things we technical folk use on a daily basis they care 
> less about of course. As a consequence myself and my peers at COMMON 
> Europe are in near constant communication with those who own this stuff.
>
> Daily we are relaying 'yet another thing' we don't want to lose. They 
> are starting to get it.
>
>         - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis
>
> P.S. Geographay IS a big deal for IBM but they already have to deal 
> with hundreds of geopraphies for everything else they do so it kinda 
> got a free ride.
>
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> On 10/31/2019 1:51 PM, Rob Berendt wrote:
> > Funny thing is that HCL had a webinar this week on the future of 
> > Connections.  They're punting it off to multiple different companies 
> > based on geographical location. Apparently geography was not a big 
> > deal when it was under IBM but it's a huge thing under other companies.
> > Anyway, during the webinar multiple people asked about the future of 
> > DeveloperWorks content stored on Connections.  Summary is:  there is 
> > no future - kiss it goodbye.
> >
> > Rob Berendt